This is a very common error in the Microsoft world and it has been causing me some grief for a while. The first thing to note is that the error is misleading in that it tells you what it found and this is confusing at best. Microsoft actually have some…

I’ve used Mercurial for seven years now and I am reasonably comfortable with it. Most of the time I’m using it at a fairly simple level and I’ve rarely had a major issue with it though I did once have to help a novice user who had become incredibly tangled…

This all started with the error message in an MVC application— Could not load file or assembly ‘WebGrease’ …. A very familiar type of error to many of us but in this case it rang a dark distant bell. I tried all the usual things (in no particular order) —…

For some reason some software companies like to improve their software to near the point it becomes useless. The bigger the company the more this seems to happen. Many years ago, when hand crafting HTML was a big thing, I found a simple HTML editor that I really liked. Unfortunately…

This is one of those things that is superficially simple but has a few quirks that can take a little while to work around. I have an ASP.NET core application that has a number of different layouts. Each of these layouts needs to have a single dropdown button. The links…

This happened to me when I was trying to add a new SOAP project to SOAPUI. If you don’t already know, SOAPUI is a fantastic tool for use with SOAP web services. Over many years I have never found anything better. Having said that, I don’t use it that much…

This is another of those frustratingly simple issues to resolve — or at least it was in my case. I had a solution with two projects in it. One with code and one with tests. I had made some updates to my data model and wanted to update the database…